Brainerd Lakes Curling Association Board of Directors Meeting

October 21, 2008

6:00p.m.

Board Members Present:

Dave Kapitzke, Mike Deiss, Mike Hoff, Andy Miles, Tom Jones, Al Rogers, Caren Bedard, Jill Anderson, Jack Christofferson, Janet Axtell

Approval of Meeting Minutes:

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as read.

Financial Report: Dave Kapitzke

The largest expense incurred this past month was the purchase of the rocks from Hibbing. Income has been paid Membership fees. It has been requested that membership fees be paid by December 1, 2008.  Checking Acct. balance is $3,167.14.

Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements are filed with BLCA Minutes.

Our P.O. Box lease has expired and because the secretary did not pick up the mail until the box had expired and the number reassigned, we need to decide if we should reapply for another mail box.  It was decided that we should ask John Raboin if his office P.O. would receive the curling club mail so it would be read on a timely basis.  Andy will approach John.

Old Business

October 11^th Open House at Hallett Center & Membership – Tom Jones & Jill Anderson

Approximately 25 people attended; 9 of these people signed up to be members.

Jill has e-mailed and called interested people from both Open Houses. A few of people registering at the Brainerd Open House put only their e-mail address, no phone number. Some addresses were not valid or could not be read clearly.  In the future, if at all possible have the person write their phone number as well as their e-mail address. 

Service Club Membership Fees

There was discussion about fees. This past year the board approved that would be four people designated as full members, each would pay $150 ($ 600 for a team of four).  Each sub would pay $50 dollars.  In the case of a service club there would be an unknown amount of people rotating in the season. Therefore, the service club fee could be $800+ making it unaffordable.

BLCA encourage service clubs to sponsor teams so people can play the sport, enjoy it and eventually form their own team. Therefore, Mike Hoff made a motion,  “a service club may have one team made up of unlimited players. The team fee is $700. Each service organization would designate a person as a representative of the team. This representative will be a voting member of BLCA.”  Caren Bedard seconded the motion.  All members of the Board approved.

New Business

Opening League Bonspiel – October 25, 2008

Tom proposed that each team would play two 4 end games.

Schedule would be as follows:

     4:00 and 5:00 starts

     Dinner 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.

     6:30 and 7:30 starts

Tom, Al and Jim volunteered to set up the ice at 3:00 p.m.

Team subs are welcome.

Maucierci’s will cater the dinner.  Jan will contact Tony Thursday morning.

We are estimating 60 people will attend.

League schedule

Tonight, after this meeting, Tom, Jill and anyone else who are interested will count the number of teams planning to play this season and will work on placing new members and subs to teams without a full roster.

Tom will then plan the 2008-09 schedule based on the number of teams. An e-mail with the season schedule shall be sent to all skips, which they in turn will relay to their team members and subs.

Gary’s Sports Bar & Grill

Mike Hoff will contact Gary to request a BLCA donation based on a percentage of food and drink sales purchased by curlers on league nights.  Mike will find out if Gary wants us to continue to inform the waitstaff when ordering that we are BLCA members so receipts can be marked.

Next meeting:

Tuesday, November18, 2008 at 6:00p.m. at John Raboin’s office.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Jan Axtell